Risk & Claims Manager

About Us

When you work at Chugach Government Solutions (CGS), you join a proud legacy of supporting missions while sustaining culture.

The federal division of Chugach Alaska Corporation, CGS has been supporting critical missions as a government contractor for over 25 years. Our focus is to support facility maintenance, IT/technical services, construction and education. We are proud to have built, and continue to foster, an incredibly talented team spanning across the globe in hundreds of different fields - each team member proud to serve our country with first-class business services, while also making a difference for our Chugach shareholders.

At CGS, empowering employees is a part of our core, and that focus is one of the ways we build and foster high-performing teams. We empower our employees through competitive compensation and benefits package, professional growth opportunities, truthful communication, and more!

If you are looking for an opportunity to serve something bigger than yourself; if you want your day job to be one that creates meaningful value; if you are looking for an environment that highly values employees and respects individual differences - then Chugach Government Solutions may be the right fit for you!

This position is located onsite at our offices in Huntsville, Alabama or Anchorage, Alaska.

The Manager of Risk Management and Insurance Programs leads the day-to-day administration, execution, and continuous improvement of CGS's enterprise risk, commercial insurance, claims, and surety programs. The position supervises assigned staff and provides technical guidance to senior leadership and operational teams regarding risk identification, risk transfer, insurance compliance, loss prevention, claims management, and bonding requirements.

The Manager works collaboratively with Safety, Human Resources, Legal, Contracts, Finance, Business Development, and operational leadership to evaluate exposures, develop mitigation strategies, maintain appropriate insurance coverage, and support compliance with contractual and regulatory requirements. The position also serves as a primary liaison with insurance brokers, carriers, third-party administrators, surety providers, and other external partners.

Essential

Job Duties:

• Lead the administration and continuous improvement of CGS risk management, commercial insurance, claims, and surety programs.
• Supervise assigned risk management personnel, including establishing priorities, assigning work, providing technical guidance, evaluating performance, and supporting employee development.
• Serve as a subject matter expert to senior leadership, operational teams, and external partners on insurance, claims, surety, risk transfer, and loss-prevention matters.
• Identify and evaluate organizational assets, operations, contractual obligations, and workforce exposures that may result in financial, operational, or reputational loss; recommend appropriate risk-control and risk-financing strategies.
• Review solicitations, contracts, and subcontracts to identify insurance, indemnification, bonding, and other risk-transfer requirements. Coordinate significant legal or contractual concerns with Legal and Contracts personnel.
• Manage domestic and international insurance programs, including policy placement, renewals, endorsements, certificates of insurance, evidence of coverage, notices of compliance, audits, and exposure reporting.
• Serve as the primary liaison with insurance brokers, insurers, third-party administrators, claims specialists, and surety providers. Support coverage negotiations, renewal strategy, claim resolution, and service-performance reviews.
• Oversee the reporting, investigation, documentation, administration, and resolution of claims, including workers' compensation, automobile, property, general liability, and employment-practices claims.
• Review claim trends, reserves, costs, and outcomes and work with internal and external claims professionals to reduce total cost of risk and achieve effective claim resolution.
• Partner with the Corporate Safety Director, Human Resources, and operational leadership to develop and…